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THE INTERVIEW<br />
Funny man PJ Gallagher will<br />
be taking time out to stew<br />
with the students of DCU this<br />
week when he performs on<br />
Wednesday 20th September<br />
in The Venue. Don’t miss out<br />
on him embarrassing your<br />
mates.<br />
Q&A with<br />
PJ Gallagher<br />
PJ Gallagher, the brains behind RTE’s Naked Camera, takes<br />
some time out to answer some of the most important ques-<br />
tions ever put to him.<br />
How funny are you?<br />
I don’t know to be honest, I only really<br />
got into comedy cause I can’t do<br />
anything else.<br />
Where do you get all your energy<br />
from?<br />
Red Bull, strepsils and petrol station<br />
sandwiches. I don’t expect to live very<br />
long.<br />
Did you ever go to college?<br />
No, it wasn’t for me and I never had any<br />
discipline, I still don’t.<br />
What is your favorite low budget<br />
food?<br />
There’s a Chinese take away down<br />
the road from my house that<br />
sells the best curries ever<br />
and opens really late. I love<br />
going in there after a gig<br />
and trying to remember<br />
what the hell I was going<br />
on about.<br />
Does scone rhyme with gone<br />
or bone?<br />
Bone of course! Jaysus!<br />
Student houses are usually<br />
decorated with traffic cones,<br />
roadwork signs, flags and public<br />
notices. Why do you think this is?<br />
I have no idea why, I suppose it makes<br />
you feel like your on the<br />
street but you still have a kitchen. I<br />
once stole a builders flashing<br />
yellow light that you needed a match to<br />
turn on, it was in the 80’s though, so I<br />
don’t know where it’s gone.<br />
Can you give any tips on how to<br />
recover from hangovers?<br />
Activated charcoal from your local hippy<br />
shop. It’s bleeding brilliant.<br />
Do you prefer performing for the<br />
camera or for the live audience?<br />
It’s hard to say cause they are so<br />
different. At the moment I like TV more<br />
but tomorrow it’ll change again.<br />
How did you create the eccentric<br />
persona of ‘Jake Stevens’?<br />
He’s based on a whole bunch of<br />
different fellas that I used to work with<br />
on a building site years ago. One guy in<br />
particular though cause his voice was<br />
exactly the same.<br />
Have you any plans for the future?<br />
No way, every time I plan something I<br />
do something wrong. I’ll just see what<br />
happens. I guess I’ll write some more<br />
stand up and make some more telly.<br />
Other than that I’ll just be doing the<br />
usual, whatever that is.<br />
What do you understand by private,<br />
protective, and public?<br />
I don’t know, different types of toilets<br />
or something.<br />
Do you like dressing up as a<br />
woman?<br />
It’s alright but the tights are a pisser.<br />
I hear you and drink fell out recently.<br />
Is the relationship reconcilable?<br />
No. Drink and me have split up for<br />
good now and we aren’t going to talk<br />
anymore. It keeps calling though. Such<br />
a temptress.<br />
Do you have any idols?<br />
Not really but there’s lots of sports<br />
people I really admire. I like<br />
my mates a lot too.<br />
Right now you are in front of a<br />
computer. If you could be anywhere<br />
else, where would you be?<br />
In Croke Park in 1995 watching the<br />
Dub’s win the All-Ireland for what might<br />
be the last time ever and shouting like<br />
a lunatic.<br />
camPus
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